Timothy Birdnow

I beg to differ.

Vermont Democrat Rep: Without Illegals, Who Would Wipe Our *sses?

I don't know about the good people of Vermont, but here in Missouri we are taught as children basic personal hygiene.

Oh, and we do fine without illegal nurses. My wife has been in a facility for months now and has requires such services and guess what? Just about every one of her nurses and aids have no accent at all. Plenty of people willing to do it.

Which is interesting as the hospitals she has been in have had quite a few accented folks, meaning hospitals hire based on DEI. But the private nursing home, which undoubtedly pays less, is pretty much immigrant free. Now why do you suppose that is?

There have never been "jobs Americans just won't do" - employers just need to pay market rates and stop looking for bargain basement employees. And the government should stop encouraging illegal immigration. And they need to relax the stifling regulations that lead employers to look outside the system. And we need to get rid of DEI and the other abominations that masquerade as kindness in America. People will do any job if it's worth it for them to do.

I remember an old comedy bit from when I was a kid. It was a spoof on the old Bic ligher commercial "flick of the Bic sir" where a butler with white gloves asks "pick of the nose sir?" It was intended as humor but it was always possible to find people to be "gentleman's gentlemen" and do jobs "Americans just won't do" (or Brits either.) There was pride in any work, and while today some may think it beneath them there was a whole group of people who proudly did such jobs. An easy job does not give one a sense of pride. Doing a hard or dirty or thanksless job does because only the really dedicated do them.

We need to start teaching those values again. And especially with the young who don't work or bear any real responsibility. Time was the hard and dirty jobs went to teenagers who would learn proper work ethic. From there they would work their way up. But no more; now we think we can just bring in illegal aliens to do this work and our kids can just hang out all day playing on their i-phones.

Well, I did my share of hard and dirty and thankless jobs, starting at age 16 when I could legally work (actually before that as I cut grass and did basic labor for people in the neighborhood.) It was good for me even though I may not have liked it at the time. Built character.

And that is why our young seem so devoid of character these days; they are never challenged, never face tasks that are unpleasant but must be done. If we had had another Great Depression these kids would have been in a world of hurt.

So if Vermont wants illegals to wipe their posteriors then perhaps it's time they build some character in themselves and learned to do the job. At some point everyone has to grow up.

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